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Progress is not inevitable. It's up to us to create it.

Michael Bloomberg

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Michael Bloomberg
Age: 82
Born: 1942
Born: February 14
Actor
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Former Mayor Of New York City
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Boston
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Michael Rubens Bloomberg
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Neither party has God on its side, a monopoly on good ideas, or a lock on any single fiscal, social, or moral philosophy.
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I have two daughters that are the loves of my life and I want to leave them a better world, a better country, a better state and a better city.
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